- lit. everything bodes ill, no positive signs (idiom)
- fig. inauspicious; everything points to disaster
Characters
- 凶 (兇): terrible; fearful
- 多 (多): many; much; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly-
- 吉 (吉): surname Ji; abbr. for 吉林[Ji2 lin2] Jilin Province
- 少 (少): few; less; to lack; to be missing; to stop (doing sth); seldom
Resources
- Wiktionary: 凶多吉少
- MDBG: 凶多吉少
- Examples with 凶多吉少 on Tatoeba
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